=== To ALL: OK. From post #187,step 1, I proceed to step 2. I kept this 1st step simple -- to which atheists (but, esp. anti-theists) can't answer or respond. To this 1st post (negative reasons for no God), I could add, positively, a belief in the concept of a God provides personal comfort & social order -- from experience & observation. You can refute this, but, not my perspective (and that of 70% of Americans). Yes, you can chose both no-God and to be negative.
So, with atheists & anti-theists left in the dirt (their destiny), I proceed, w step 2, to the skeptics -- the seekers. agnostics, humanists, etc. -- having accepted that the God-solution is, or could be, good for America and that the concept is real & exists. BTW: America's history & tradition bares this out. Not perfect, but good w higher goals & motivation. To wit (of most recent): Brokaw's "Greatest Generation".
Given the above, the God concept seems worthy of belief, which means, to have confidence in something not proveable by science. Allowing belief (via the pragmatic "proof") in the God concept provides insight into the metaphysical -- partly physical & partly spiritual OR items not understood by science. This provides answers (or insights) to such questions as the origin of the universe & and the deeper purpose of it all (incl. us)!
BTW: I see science & theology (evolution & creation) as compatible as well as complementary -- as was done in the Renaissance!
More on additional evidence or "proof" next. So, for skeptics, w an open mind, who really want to learn, I say "try it, you'll like it"!
So, with atheists & anti-theists left in the dirt (their destiny), I proceed, w step 2, to the skeptics -- the seekers. agnostics, humanists, etc. -- having accepted that the God-solution is, or could be, good for America and that the concept is real & exists. BTW: America's history & tradition bares this out. Not perfect, but good w higher goals & motivation. To wit (of most recent): Brokaw's "Greatest Generation".
Given the above, the God concept seems worthy of belief, which means, to have confidence in something not proveable by science. Allowing belief (via the pragmatic "proof") in the God concept provides insight into the metaphysical -- partly physical & partly spiritual OR items not understood by science. This provides answers (or insights) to such questions as the origin of the universe & and the deeper purpose of it all (incl. us)!
BTW: I see science & theology (evolution & creation) as compatible as well as complementary -- as was done in the Renaissance!
More on additional evidence or "proof" next. So, for skeptics, w an open mind, who really want to learn, I say "try it, you'll like it"!
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